Chuck Knives Out and The Grand Budapest Hotel in a blender, add some stiff British spirits like Beefeater or Hendricks, and mix: what you’ll end up with is See How They Run, a proper British whodunnit.
Sam Rockwell adopts a gruff English accent and Saoirse Ronan is allowed to use her lovely, natural Irish brogue for the first time in a while, leading the murder investigation as an inspector and constable. See How They Run runs into UK cinemas on September 9. Place your bets on the trailer below as to who the stiff-upper-lipped killer might be.
As with Knives Out, director Tom George’s cast is full of familiar faces having a good time playing pretentious suspects. There’s David Oyelowo (as the “overrated playwright”), Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, Shirley Henderson, and Harris Dickinson as a young Richard Attenborough, starring in a doomed theatrical adaptation of a Hollywood film.
The body at the film’s centre is equally ritzy: Adrien Brody, his corpse “staged” before our mismatched pair of investigators. And we do use the word “ritzy” because the trailer employs the lovely old-school soundtrack of “Putting On The Ritz.”
Even though Ronan’s overeager young cop is constantly jumping to conclusions in the trailer above, we reckon she might end up solving the case a bit sooner than Rockwell’s moustachioed Inspector Stoppard. She, after all, is the one bashing down doors to stop what’s becoming a string of serial murders.
If you’re a fan of Wes Anderson’s pristine aesthetic or Kenneth Branagh’s recent Poirot films, you’re probably gunning to see how See How They Run uncoils its old-fashioned murder mystery. This is definitely a cinematic trend we’re into—strand a bunch of well-dressed actors in a room and accuse them of crime most foul in some glam setting.
